Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Quotes
The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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I am frequently attacked.
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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
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As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.
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The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
